Advertising other forums Options

[Retrogressive]

I thought CB allowed you to advertise in your signature. I think CB should be much clearer in their rules rather than changing people's signatures without warning.

Doesn't CB state that we can advertise in signatures?

If we can have a Forum advertise in the Web site section I don't understand why my signature, along with others, as been altered. If you own a forum, it's considered a website that you put your time into.

[*mipadi*]

I'm not seeing the big deal about advertising other forums in signatures. First of all, I don't think the "no advertising" rule should apply to signatures. A signature is a personal piece of information and anything should be allowed, with the exceptions of inappropriate material (such as pornography and profanity).

Secondly, even if the "no advertising" rule applies to signatures, I hardly think another forum qualifies as "commercial". One can also argue that even if it does, it is merely "providing information" (the address of the forum).

Thirdly, I don't understand the reason for forbidding "competing" sites. First of all, cB is a great place--great enough that even other forums won't detract from its membership, and just because a person belongs to several similar forums, does not mean they are not active in each community. Secondly, what is "competing"? I could be wrong, but I don't think cB is a commercial venture--while it makes some money from ads, I don't think its primary intention is to serve as primary income for an individual, group of individuals, or corporation (please correct me if this is inaccurate). Therefore, I don't see the problem in allowing other forum administrators to advertise their own forum in their signature.

[KissMe2408]

-I was going to write out this whole thing, until I saw Michael's post. And he basically said everything I was going to point out.
- It's hard getting the whole committee to talk about this now, especially around the holidays and all. But this will be addressed. I actually thought that advertisements were allowed in personal sigs until a couple of weeks ago. I really don't see a problem about advertising other sites in your sig.
-Linda Belle and (edit) Molly (sorry for callin you erica, got confused at first lol),
I understand why you guys are getting upset. But thanks for bringing it out in the open. Take deep breaths you guys, it'll sort out. Remember the by-laws aren't even official yet. We're just trying to work everything out and talk about it first.

Now for Michael's post that show my views on this topic as well:
(if you want me to write out my own, then that's fine. Michael just said it so well that I wanted to quote him, and I don't have a lot of time right now to type it out)

I'm not seeing the big deal about advertising other forums in signatures. First of all, I don't think the "no advertising" rule should apply to signatures. A signature is a personal piece of information and anything should be allowed, with the exceptions of inappropriate material (such as pornography and profanity).

Secondly, even if the "no advertising" rule applies to signatures, I hardly think another forum qualifies as "commercial". One can also argue that even if it does, it is merely "providing information" (the address of the forum).

Thirdly, I don't understand the reason for forbidding "competing" sites. First of all, cB is a great place--great enough that even other forums won't detract from its membership, and just because a person belongs to several similar forums, does not mean they are not active in each community. Secondly, what is "competing"? I could be wrong, but I don't think cB is a commercial venture--while it makes some money from ads, I don't think its primary intention is to serve as primary income for an individual, group of individuals, or corporation (please correct me if this is inaccurate). Therefore, I don't see the problem in allowing other forum administrators to advertise their own forum in their signature.

This post has been edited by KissMe2408: Dec 27 2005, 05:09 PM